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had in weeks to simply stop and be still for a little while. Turcotte knew it
was a temporary respite, but one both of them terribly needed.
They lapsed into silence for a few moments, taking in the spectacular view.
The moon was shining down on them. To the west it reflected off the white-
covered peaks.
"There's Longs Peak." Duncan pointed to their left. "A fourteener," she added,
referring to one of the many peaks in Colorado over 14,000 feet.
Turcotte nodded. "I climbed it when I was in Tenth Special Forces."
Duncan laughed. "I should have known." She gestured toward the south. "On a
clear day you can see the top of Pikes Peak, over a hundred miles away."


"I always wanted to retire out here. I don't think you can beat the
mountains," Turcotte said.
That brought another long silence. Turcotte looked up once more at the sky.
Finally he spoke. "Anything from Kelly?"
Duncan sighed, realizing the real world was never far away. "Nothing. The only
change has been that the shield surrounding Easter Island is now opaque.
Overflights, satellite imagery, thermal, infrared, radio wavesтАФnothing can get
through. There's just a big black

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half-circle sitting on the ocean now. We don't have a clue what's going on
inside of the shield."
"And Mars? The Airlia base?" Turcotte asked.
"Nothing. We hope the Surveyor nuke took out the guardian there."
Turcotte shook his head. "You've looked at the imagery from Hubble and the
other data like I did. The bomb went off a couple of miles up. There's no
surface damage."
"I was trying to be optimistic. Mars is a long way off." Duncan tried to put
more confidence in her voice than she felt. The talon fleet had powered up after
being left in storage for more than five thousand years and crossed that
distance in less than two days.
They were lost in their own thoughts until Duncan broke the silence.
"Some people think we did the wrong thing."
Turcotte laughed. "That's understating it a bit. I have had a moment or two to
watch the news."
 "All right," Duncan said, "a lot of people think we did the wrong thing."
"We had to act," Turcotte said. "There wasn't time to sit around and have a
debate."
"I'm not saying I agree with those people," Duncan said. "I think we did the
right thing. What I'm concerned about is what happens next."
Turcotte took a sip of beer, then put his mug down. "Hell, Lisa, I'm not
exactly sure what happened, never mind what is going to happen." He closed his
eyes in thought. "First, we had the Easter Island guardian computer tell
Nabinger what a great guy this alien Aspasia was. How he saved mankind from some
other terrible alien force the Airlia were at war with by keeping the rebels
among his own people from engaging the interstellar engine of the mothership and
bringing those